Edmund Morris Quotes

Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

Edmund Morris

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• I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Democrat

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Civilization

• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Air
  • Daily
  • Civilization

• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Civilization
  • Possible

• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Adventure

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
  • Test

• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Civilization
  • Dreamers

• The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Society
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Today
  • Looks
  • Civilization

• ... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Thinking
  • Civilization
  • Doe

• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I think women can save civilization.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Woman

• The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Civilization
  • Tragedy

• Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Replacement
  • Educated People

• Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Succeeds
  • Nonfiction
  • Gratifying

• The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Knowledge
  • Air
  • Intelligent

• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Dance

• Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Civilization
  • Dependence
  • Roosevelt